Artist Television Acess

Artist Television Access is an organization that began in the 80’s in San Francisco. The goal of the organization is to provide the public the use of equipment, education and, most important to our class, a place for showing independent films. While not at all limited to avant-garde they seem to offer a wide array of film options. Every Sunday at midnight a film series airs on San Francisco television, hence the organizations name. One series of particular note is the CINEMAWHORE! a series in which films about prostitutes are shown. However, what concerns us is the avant-garde cinema they have to offer.

Here are some of the more intriguing ones.

Sileon Daley: an animator of the avant-garde set
"The Pink! The Pink!:" 1 min, 16mm film, painted animation
In the process of dying a jacket pink I accidentally turned my entire house pink!
"Iets op Filmen" (Something on Film): 6 min, 16mm film, in beginner Dutch with English subtitles
Live action and experimental animation. A vision from a bottle of spilt soy milk inspires Janneke to create something on film. Music by Ian McGettigan (Thrush Hermit).

Amy Lockhart: Also an animator, anyone notice my bias?
"The Devil Lives in Hollywood" by Amy Lockhart: 2 min, 16mm experimental animation
Floating images of ice cream and crippled supermen, narrated with a perfectly confident solitary voice

All of these films are a part of a series of vegan inspired films. I found them to be the most interesting.

I would have chosen a few more but most the films they show come without a description and since this organization shows some independent film that is truly independent it is hard to gather much information.